Active and Passive Euthanasia James Rachels

Active and Passive Euthanasia James Rachels Abstract The traditional distinction between Active and Passive Euthanasia requires critical analysis. The conventional doctrine i s that there i s such an important moral difference between the two that, although the latter i s sometimes permissible, the former i s always forbidden. This doctrine may be challenged for several reasons. First of all, Active Euthanasia i s in many cases more humane than Passive Euthanasia . Secondly, the conventional doctrine leads to decisions concerning life and death on irrelevant grounds.

drome, and not the intestines, that is the issue. The matter should be decided, if at all, on that basis, and hot be allowed to depend on the essentially irrelevant question of whether the intestinal tract is blocked. What makes this situation possible, of course, is the idea that when there

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